Word: icons
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...Read: "Icon's Death: What Now for India's Communists...
...blog is filled with commentary on Faust as fashion icon, sarcastic critiques of Harvard's foray into Allston, and clunky faux dialogue between Grimke-as-foil and a caricature of the Harvard president...
Fifteen years earlier, on April 4, 1968, Mrs. King had lost her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to an assassin's bullet. In the months after the death of the civil rights icon, Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan introduced the first legislation seeking to make King's birthday, Jan. 15, a federal holiday. The King Memorial Center in Atlanta was founded around the same time, and it sponsored the first annual observance of King's birthday, in January 1969, almost a decade and a half before it became an official government-sanctioned holiday. Before then, individual states...